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Duffy is a surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

of Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

origin. It comes from the original Irish name

Irish name

A formal Irish-language name consists of a given name and a surname. Surnames in Irish are generally patronymic in etymology, although they are no longer literal patronyms, as Icelandic names are...

Ó Dubhthaigh, meaning descendant or grandson of Dubhthach. Dubhthach was an Old Irish first name meaning "Dark one". It may refer to:

Irish

Charles Gavan Duffy
Charles Gavan Duffy
Additional Reading*, Allen & Unwin, 1973.*John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press.*Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922....

, Irish nationalist poet, later Australian colonial politician
Eamon Duffy
Eamon Duffy
Eamon Duffy is an Irish Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and former President of Magdalene College....

, historian
Gabriel Duffy
Gabriel Duffy
Gabriel Patrick Duffy was an author and philosopher born in Dublin, Ireland, and is best known for his autobiography, Sham to Rock. Duffy emigrated to London in 1963, where he worked as an accountant...

, Irish writer
George Gavan Duffy
George Gavan Duffy
-Family:George Gavan Duffy was born in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, England in 1882, the son of Sir Charles Gavan Duffy and his third wife, Louise. His half-brother Sir Frank Gavan Duffy was the fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, sitting on the bench of the High Court from 1913 to...

, Irish politician
James Duffy (Irish publisher)
James Duffy (Irish publisher)
James Duffy was a prominent 19th century Irish author and publisher.-Career:Duffy was educated at a hedge school and began his business as a bookseller through purchasing Protestant bibles given to Catholics. He then traveled to Liverpool where he traded them for more valuable books...

, an Irish publisher of Nationalist and Roman Catholic books, bibles and religious texts
James Duffy (VC)
James Duffy (VC)
James Duffy was a British Army soldier during the First World War, and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.Duffy was born on 17 November 1889 in Gweedore , County Donegal, Ireland....

, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1917
Jim Duffy (journalist), author, political commentator, and Irish advisor to Australia's Republic Advisory Committee
Joe Duffy
Joe Duffy
Joseph "Joe" Duffy is an Irish broadcaster employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann . A Jacob's Award winner, he is the current presenter of Liveline, which is broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, Monday - Fridays between 13:45 and 15:00.Duffy has a history as a student activist; he was President of the Union of...

, Irish radio personality
Joseph Duffy (bishop), Irish Catholic bishop
Keith Duffy
Keith Duffy
Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy is an Irish singer-songwriter, actor, drummer, dancer and television presenter. He began his career as part of Boyzone in the 1990s. In the 2000s, he achieved critical acclaim for his acting roles, particularly in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair...

, Irish musician from Boyzone
Martin Duffy
Martin Duffy
Martin Duffy, is an Irish filmmaker and writer.Starting as a film-editor at Radio Telefís Éireann in the late 1970s, he expanded into writing children's shows in the 1980s with the Lambert Puppet Theatre, Wanderly Wagon, Fortycoats & Co., Bosco and Scratch Saturday...

, Irish filmmaker and writer
Mik Duffy
Mik Duffy
Mik Duffy is a writer from Armagh, Northern Ireland, currently resided in Belfast, he writes mainly for and about film.-Filmography:* Brody Mullet: Boxkicker * Hitch * Mortice * Flying Saucer Rock'n'Roll...

, Irish filmmaker and journalist on film
Thomas Duffy (VC) (1805-1858), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1857
Sean Patrick Duffy, High ranking I.R.A member

Australians

Bill Duffy
Bill Duffy (sportsman)
William Vincent "Bill" Duffy was an Australian sportsman. He played cricket for Western Australia and football for the and West Perth Football Clubs in the West Australian Football Association , and also umpired several matches in both sports.-Career:Duffy was born in Melbourne, but moved to...

(1866–1959), Australian sportsman
Charles Gavan Duffy
Charles Gavan Duffy
Additional Reading*, Allen & Unwin, 1973.*John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press.*Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922....

, Irish nationalist poet, later Australian colonial politician
Frank Gavan Duffy
Frank Gavan Duffy
Sir Frank Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC, QC , Australian judge, was the fourth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, sitting on the bench of the High Court from 1913 to 1935.-Early life:...

, Australian judge

Scottish

Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy, CBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's poet laureate in May 2009...

- Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
Darryl Duffy
Darryl Duffy
Darryl Alexander Duffy is a Scottish footballer who is currently playing for Cheltenham Town as a striker.-Club career:...

, Scottish football player
Jim Duffy (footballer), former football (soccer) player and manager

Welsh

Aimee Anne Duffy, real name of Welsh singer Duffy (singer)
Duffy (singer)
Aimée Ann Duffy , known as Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her 2008 debut album Rockferry entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best-selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008 with 1.68 million copies sold...
Richard Duffy
Richard Duffy
Richard Michael Duffy is a Wales international footballer who plays for Exeter City. He was originally on trial at League One side Exeter City and decided to join them on a permanent basis in July 2009...

, Welsh footballer

English

Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy
Billy Duffy is an English guitarist and songwriter, best known as the guitarist in The Cult.-Early days:He grew up in Manchester, where he began playing guitar at the age of fourteen...

, British musician
Brian Duffy (photographer)
Brian Duffy (photographer)
Brian Duffy was a celebrated English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s and 1970s and his creation of the iconic "Aladdin Sane" image for David Bowie.-Early life:...

, British photographer
Brian Duffy, real name of British drummer Jet Black
Jet Black
Jet Black is an English drummer and founder member of punk rock / new wave band The Stranglers.-Early years:...

of The Stranglers
Christopher Duffy
Christopher Duffy
Christopher Duffy is a British military historian. Duffy read history at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1961 with the PhD. Afterwards, he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the college of the British General Staff...

, British historian
John Duffy and David Mulcahy
John Duffy and David Mulcahy
John Duffy and David Mulcahy are two British rapists and serial killers who together attacked numerous women at railway stations in the south of England through the 1980s...

, British murderers
Martin Duffy (musician)
Martin Duffy (musician)
Martin Duffy is an English keyboardist who originally played in Felt and currently plays with Primal Scream.-Career:Duffy was born in Birmingham and grew up in Rednal in the south of the city, attending St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School in King's Norton, and growing up listening to Two Tone, punk,...

, keyboardist with Primal Scream
Maureen Duffy
Maureen Duffy
Maureen Patricia Duffy is a contemporary British poet, playwright and novelist. She has also published a literary biography of Aphra Behn, and The Erotic World of Faery a book-length study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature.-Life and work:After a tough childhood, Duffy took her degree in...

, British writer
Nick Duffy
Nick Duffy
Nick Duffy is a musician, artist, illustrator, and filmmaker.Nick is the elder brother of singer/songwriter Stephen Duffy. They are both co-founders of the folk-pop group The Lilac Time. Nick is a multi-instrumentalist, and has been a frequent contributor to Stephen's solo recordings...

, British songwriter
Patrick Duffy (UK politician)
Patrick Duffy (UK politician)
Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy , Economist, Member of Parliament for Colne Valley 1963-1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe 1970-1992, Minister of the Navy in the 1970s, and President of the NATO Assembly in the 1980s....
Paul Duffy, bass guitarist for The Coral
The Coral
The Coral are an English band formed in 1996 in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The band first emerged during the early 2000s and found success with their debut album The Coral and follow up Magic and Medicine...
Philip Duffy
Philip Duffy
Philip Edmund Duffy was the Master of the Music at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral from 1966 to 1996, and now lectures at Liverpool Hope University.-Career:...

, English composer of sacred music
Stephen Duffy
Stephen Duffy
Stephen Anthony James Duffy is an English singer/songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member and vocalist/bassist of Duran Duran. He went on to record as a solo performer under several different names, and is the singer and songwriter for The Lilac Time with his older brother...

, British songwriter
Sean Patrick Duffy, American Federal Agent
Kirsty Duffy, British Actress, TV Presenter

North Americans

Brian Duffy (astronaut), American astronaut
Bruce Duffy
Bruce Duffy
Bruce Michael Duffy is an American author. He is best known for his novel The World As I Found It , a fictionalized account of the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein, a prominent 20th century philosopher. In 1988, the book won a Whiting Writer's Award and Duffy received a Guggenheim Fellowship...

, Irish-American novelist, author of The World as I Found It
Charles John Duffy
Charles John Duffy
Charles John Duffy was born on December 31, 1919 in New York City. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve on April 25, 1941 and was appointed an aviation cadet November 13, 1941...

, American WWII pilot, namesake of USS Duffy
Chris Duffy (baseball), American baseball player
Francis P. Duffy
Francis P. Duffy
Francis Patrick Duffy was an American soldier, Roman Catholic priest and chaplain. As the chaplain for the "Fighting 69th", he became the most highly decorated cleric in the history of the U.S. Army. Duffy Square, the northern half of Times Square, is named after him.-Early life and...

, Canadian-American Catholic priest
Gerald Duffy
Gerald Duffy
Gerald Duffy was a screenwriter of the silent film era, as well as a journalist, and short story writer and copyeditor. He is best known for his many contributions to Redbook magazine, which he edited, as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Title Writing in the 1st Academy Awards...

, American screenwriter
Hugh Duffy
Hugh Duffy
Hugh Duffy was a 19th century Major League Baseball player. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.-Career:...

, American baseball player
J. C. Duffy
J. C. Duffy
J.C. Duffy is an American comic artist. He creates the syndicated comic strip "The Fusco Brothers" and created the comic Strip "Go Fish". He also writes and draws cartoons that appear in The New Yorker and other magazines....

, American cartoon artist
James E. Duffy, Jr.
James E. Duffy, Jr.
James E. Duffy, Jr. is an associate justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. He is currently serving a term that lasts from 2003 to 2013. He also is a former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit....

, United States Democratic Party nominee for the Hawaii Supreme Court http://starbulletin.com/2003/04/16/news/story5.html
James Duffy (athlete), Irish-Canadian distance runner
James Duffy (psychiatrist)
James Duffy (psychiatrist)
Dr. James Duffy is a graduate of the University of Rhodesia and completed his residency in Psychiatry at Brown University. He then completed Fellowships in Neuropsychiatry at Brown and Harvard. Dr. Duffy has held full professorships at Cornell, University of Texas, and University of Connecticut...

, neuropsychiatrist, and (former?) associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Connecticut
Jo Duffy
Jo Duffy
Jo Duffy, sometimes credited as Mary Jo Duffy is a comic book editor and writer, known for her work for Marvel Comics in the 1980s, and DC Comics and Image Comics in the 1990s.-Biography:...

, American comics book writer
John Duffy (soccer)
John Duffy (soccer)
John Duffy was a former U.S. soccer full back. Duffy played five years in the American Soccer League and earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1928.-American Soccer League:...

, U.S. soccer player at 1928 Summer Olympics
John A. Duffy
John A. Duffy
John Aloysius Duffy was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Syracuse from 1933 to 1937, and as Bishop of Buffalo from 1937 until his death.-Early life and ministry:...

, American bishop
Julia Duffy
Julia Duffy
Julia Duffy is an American actress from Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in character roles, best known as the spoiled rich girl and Dick Loudon's inn maid, Stephanie Vanderkellen, on the 1980s sitcom, Newhart.-Career:Duffy's early caeer included parts in soap operas such as One Life to Live,...

, American actress
Karen Duffy
Karen Duffy
Karen Duffy is an American model, television personality, and actress.-Early life:Duffy was born in New York City, the daughter of Carol, a homemaker, and Phil Duffy, a developer. She attended Park Ridge High School in Park Ridge, New Jersey, graduating in 1979...

, American model and actress
Mike Duffy, Canadian senator, retired television journalist
Pat Duffy
Pat Duffy
Pat Duffy is a professional skateboarder from Corte Madera,California. He is featured in the video games Skate, Skate 2, and Skate 3.Duffy is best known as the man to have revolutionized rail grinding, for his legendary part in Plan B's 1992 video "Questionable," and for his part in Plan B's 1993...

, American skateboarder
Patricia Lynne Duffy
Patricia Lynne Duffy
Patricia Lynne Duffy is an instructor in the UN Language and Communications Programme. She has an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University...

, synesthete
Patrick Duffy
Patrick Duffy
Patrick George Duffy is an American character actor of stage and film. He is best known for his role on the CBS television drama Dallas, where he played Bobby Ewing from 1978 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1991, Duffy returns to reprise his role as Bobby in a new up-to-date Dallas currently scheduled to...

, American television actor
Robert Duffy (politician), American mayor
Roger Duffy
Roger Duffy
Roger Duffy is an American architect, known for rigorous and unconventional approach to design. He currently works as a partner at the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill...

, American architect
Romney Duffey
Romney Duffey
Romney Beecher Duffey is an American nuclear scientist. Duffey has worked on modern energy systems, in the areas of thermohydraulics, system design, system analysis, risk assessment, human factors, and technological safety in Britain, United States and Canada for about 40 years, and authored...

, American/Canadian scientist
F. Ryan Duffy
F. Ryan Duffy
Francis Ryan Duffy was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1933 to 1939 and later a United States federal judge.-Biography:...

, American politician
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
Sean Patrick Duffy is an American politician, prosecutor, former sports commentator and reality television personality. He first entered public life as a cast member on The Real World: Boston and 2002's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons, before going on to serve as district...

, a politician from Colorado
Terry Duffy, American politician
Thomas C. Duffy
Thomas C. Duffy
Thomas C. Duffy is Professor of Music and the Director of Bands at Yale University.- Biography :From July 2005 through June 2006, he was the Acting Dean of the School of Music, and was Deputy Dean from 1997 to 2005...

, composer, conductor, Yale University professor
Thomas J. Duffy
Thomas J. Duffy
Thomas J. Duffy is a designer/craftsman whose present work is the conceptualization and creation of curved doors using lasers. Duffy has also crafted one-of-a-kind cabinets, chairs, and other furniture. For many years, Duffy also made St. Lawrence River rowing skiffs. One of his furniture works is...

, American craftsman/designer
Troy Duffy
Troy Duffy
Troy Duffy is an American director, screenwriter and musician. He has directed two films, The Boondock Saints, and its sequel, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.-Movie career:...

, American actor and film director
Uriah Duffy
Uriah Duffy
Uriah Duffy is an American bassist. He is best known as the former bassist of Whitesnake.-Has been a member of/played with:* Whitesnake – rock...

, bass player in Whitesnake and many other bands

Duffey

John Duffey
John Duffey
John H. Duffey was a Washington DC-based bluegrass music innovator and musician....

, American bluegrass musician
Joseph Duffey
Joseph Duffey
Joseph Daniel Duffey is an American academic, educator and political appointee.He received an A.B. from Marshall University in 1954, a B.D. from Andover Theological School in 1957, an S.T.M. from Yale University in 1963, and a Ph.D. from Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1969...

, American academic administrator